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Zusatztext This new addition to the Vintage list coincides with the Vintage publicationof MacLaverty's Booker-shortlisted title! (Grace Notes. Cal) is the classicstory set in Northern Ireland. Informationen zum Autor Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break , the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Novel of the Year. He has written versions of his fiction for other media - radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti. Klappentext Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five collections of stories and four other novels, including Grace Notes which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. He has written versions of his fiction for other media ¿ radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti. Zusammenfassung For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple... He can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, Cal is a haunting love story in a land were tenderness and innocence can only flicker briefly in the dark.
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Simple humanity, eloquently caught....Though Cal is a bleak novel, there is a flicker of lyricism running through it, like the sun shining through the shattered windows of a ruined church New York Times
